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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jose makalolot:
This is an old post that as been dugby some trolls here.
[About XDA developers] cheapusenet:
alright, im a regular of the xda-devs irc. there have been more people the last 2 weeks that have come in there with questions that couldve been solved by a 2 minute read on the wiki.

i've read the annoucement, however i do not..understand what the issue was.

i'd like to ask would it not be more timely to fix the hack. i'm unsure as to what they did, however from the sound of it they got database access.

in which case, move the tables from mainserver to another and make them readonly. i cannot grasp why shutting down the wiki for weeks on end is a better idea than a few file adjustments as a stopgap.

somebody willing to put out more information on the matter?
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
The wiki software is old, and probably has a few vulnerabilities. I'm guessing it's more than just the wiki's database been hacked that is the securing concern. Most of the db tables will probably be written to, so read-only might not be a viable option. Remember the old wiki has integrated login with vB.

The admins have setup a new MediaWiki wiki and people are currently helping migrate the content over. I'm not sure of the "Go Live" for it, but it's starting to shape up.

Dave
[About XDA developers] cheapusenet:
i just now found it, its looking..pretty good. still seems to me an hours work on the old one could fix it enough to suffice until the new ones all ready to go.
[About XDA developers] hilaireg:
At the moment, there's only a handful of folks working on porting (migrating) the information over.

We could use (and appreciate) any and all help on this effort. If you or others members are wish to assist, please contact svetius via PM.

Cheers,
[About XDA developers] cheapusenet:
so its still dead for the foreseable future. why is it we don't give my plan some thought. it cannot hurt. it'd be alot faster and alot better than waiting for every page to be moved over by a handful of people, and at the rate its going it's not exactly speedy.
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
Every visit to a page writes to the database, so read-only's not an option.

To use it, it still needs read access to the vB user login database, so we cannot secure XDA's vB database from it, meaning if there are SQL IV vulnerabilities someone could access parts of our vB database.

Dave
[About XDA developers] cheapusenet:
o use it, it still needs read access to the vB user login database,

^

bingo, why. why does it HAVE to access login data?

as for writing to the database stripping that code out couldnt be that hard,.
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
It will have access to the login data so that we only need one login for the wiki and for vB.

I've seen the code for it from when it was on Source Forge, it's a mess - if we miss something that could be a problem. :)

Also if we were still getting SQL IV attack's against read-only databases, I'd still be worried :confused:.

Dave
[About XDA developers] svetius:
I've started a thread for discussion on the wiki migration:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=729576
[About XDA developers] cheapusenet:
daveshaw, you're missing my point completely. the data in the wiki is in no way dependant on userlogins. it could be moved to a completely different server if needbe, mysqlhaxing across into another db onto another server .. over xda, would be a pretty darn extravagant feat id say.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
As Dave mentioned, the old wiki software has inherent vulnerabilities, and because it is no longer supported, we don't get periodic updates from the creator. MediaWiki is much better supported, so that over time we can continually update the software to keep it secure, etc.
[About XDA developers] cheapusenet:
in no way am i objecting to using mediawiki. moving it all over to mediawiki is a great idea, i agree.

however restricting access to the current one for weeks just because somebody doesnt want to edit some files, jerry-rig it a bit, is a bit of a..pain for everyone. alot of data is stored in that wiki.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
We're just trying to migrate it as fast as possible.
[Captivate General] GermanGuy:
I am new to Android. Have been a longtime WindowsMobile user. The Captivate has a menu to synchronize with exchange including mail, contacts and calenders. I got mail to work, but contacts and calender do not synch. I would assume it is officially supported since it is in the menu. Has anybody else got it to work, meaning can you pull contacts and calender from your exchange account down to your phone?
[Captivate General] skullvet:
Yes, mine works fine. Is auto synch off under menu/synch?
[Captivate General] fade2black:
Mine is working fine too. I went in and disabled the Contact synchronization and it looked like everything (mail, calendar, contacts) is all enabled by default. I think I remember seeing the settings when I initially set it up too. Go into your calendar and then into the settings and make sure it is displaying your exchange calendar. Same thing with the contacts.
[Captivate General] cellgeek:
Mine works great. In fact a little tooooo good. I have it syncing with my Google contacts and my exchange contacts. . .

One note. The client on the Captivate is not a full exchange client. That's apparently an Android V2.2 feature. That means there are some features that worked on my BB and my Nokia E72 that don't work on the Captivate. The most notable, and irratating is any http link embedded into an appointment note is treated as straight text. So if you have an airlines check in appointment, or link to a map - you can't just click on it and have a browser take you to the link. . . .or at least I haven't figure out how to make that work yet.:(
[Captivate General] GermanGuy:
ok. The whole Activesync exchange seems very screwy on Android. I deleted exchange account and re-added it. Now, I can see and synch all my contacts, but I only get some of my calender items. I downloaded TouchDown, and via Touchdown I can sync my email but I do not see contacts or calender. I am pretty techsavvy, so this just baffles me.
[Captivate General] moosic:
Is it possible to look up a name against the GAL/company address book with the stock android client when composing an email message?
[Captivate General] Rizz67:
I have been able to "Lookup" emails through the GAL. Simply type a name in the To Field, hit search. You are taken to a new screen where you can do a lookup. One note though. I have not seen FULL integration with the GAL. For instance, our company has Email, Direct Dial, Fax, Cell, Address all entered in the AD. This makes it easy to look up phone numbers. Cant seem to get that to work in the phone search
[Captivate General] XBoomer:
having issues sending appointments from phone

I'm using Exchange and stock email client. I've tried to send meetings to people in my GAL, but they never receive the invite. Anyone else having the issue?\
[Captivate General] lionheartck:
This is a known issue with the captivate. Hopefully there is a fix on the way. It was supposed to work seemlessly out of the box, but there are some problems.
[Desire General] ephumuris:
I wonder if it is possible to create a Windows GUI with options for often used ADB commands. As fun as they are to use i get a little bored of using them lol. I know it would still have to be done in Recovery.

It would be good to have an option to choose actions, push, pull etc then choose the file.

An option to delete (rm) too so it would make it quicker for editing the rom and testing stuff.

Just an idea. Feel free to discuss or ridicule :)
[Desire General] MarvinFS:
try

http://androidcommander.com/
[Desire General] VeeDubZ:
works like a charm, why did no-one ever mention this before lol
[Desire General] ephumuris:
That's sick. Thank you very much!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dvigue:
IF so, thoughts?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] megan23247:
I came from an iPhone 3g thats JB and unlocked. I love my iPhone BUT got really tired of only having EDGE and I hate crapple and got tired of supporting um. Ill be honest here...This phone is nothing like my iPhone infact the more I use it the harder it is for me to compare the two. This phone is way faster than my 3g ever was or could be, it runs multiple apps at once and by multiple I mean I can have 15 diff things running in background and still have 230+ of memory availiable! Its obviously lacking with the amount of apps availiable but thats all changing as Android is releasing more and more apps everyday not to mention after u sift thru all of the apps on the appstore you realize over half of them are ridiculously dumb. The games etc are not as good as the iphone cause of the screen resolution but once you get over all that I think you will see, as I did, that this phone is just as good and you will really love it. Hope my opinion helps ya. :-)
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dvigue:
it sure does! thanks alot. i have the hd2, and if a stable working port is not working in the next few months, i will replace it with the mytouch.

Thanks again
[myTouch 3G Slide General] krolla03:
You might as well just get the slide then because thats not going to happen.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dvigue:
and why do you say that??? there has been so much progress in the last month...

why would it never happen>?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] javolin13:
Funny you say that... that's what i just did... i had an hd2 for about 2 months... saw the port for android... had it running... and got too impatient, and traded it for a mt3g slide....

best decision i've ever made... the screen on the hd2 is nice, but WM is garbage... also the mt3g slide's screen is pretty much the same size of the iphone, which i've used and loved... and the speed of the mt3g slide honestly feels like the snapdragon processor...

i purchased it, reset it, and downloaded a task killer, while i was messing around with it, it was very snappy and fast at loading EVERYTHING, then i used the task killer, and saw that it had just ended 30 FREAKING APPS!

So while i was playing with the phone, 30 apps running in the background, and was still fast as hell...

and the physical keyboard??? and touch keyboard?? This phone is wonderful... you won't regret it... trust me
[myTouch 3G Slide General] megan23247:
Exactly! I had the HD2 for like two weeks and was totally disapointed windows mobile hasnt hardly changed at all and I hadnt had a WM phone in years I really wanted that phone to be more than what it is. Anyway, get a slide...its NOT an iphone BUT you will learn to like it just as much if not more esp after you see how much faster 3g is than Edge.

Sent from ROOTED MyTouch Slide
[myTouch 3G Slide General] AFP520:
I came from an original iPhone. Honestly, if T-Mo could get 3G on an iPhone, I would have got another one, but EDGE is just too damn slow. The iPhone is very smooth in my opinion. Not really a fanboy, but it was just so easy to use. Jailbreaking/Unlocking by restoring FW was cake. All this talk about rooting/flashing etc. for Android can be time consuming and confusing.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] GeekBrat:
I came from iPhone 3G on AT&T with 3G coverage. In my area (South Jersey) AT&T has MUCH better coverage than T-Mobile (I have 3G @ home but I only get 30kbps downloads at best; was getting 300-800k on AT&T).

I have to say, I am completely in love with the MtTouch 3G Slide. I miss FarmStory from TeamLava but at least I have all my Storm8 games and was able to port the account over.

I love having Widgets on my homescreens and multitasking is a definate plus. And I don't have to pay for a 3rd party app to record video :).

My iPhone was jailbroke but not unlocked as I didn't need it. I have yet to root my phone but have plans to once we get stable FroYo.

But that's just my $0.02
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dynamikd:
This is freakishly crazy, I also had an iphone 3G on Tmobile and I loved the phone but couldn't stand edge any longer! I went out and purchased the slide because the specs are really good and it could actually multitask! I ported over my storm 8 games and I am currently using a beta version of palringo and I am missing my 3G less and less! My only gripe with android is moreso with the developers because the apps that they made for apple usually have more functionality than the android version. If the developers actually made the same products for android as they did for apple, me people would gladly make the switch!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] dvigue:
good info. i just wish i could see the screen for myself. non around here are "on" they are just dummy phones..WTF>.

im really thinking of it...i love my hd2 with android, but i wonder HW good the rom with atcually be....and with the mytouch, its an android phon..so no issues...

hummm.....
[myTouch 3G Slide General] kingofyo1:
megan, how long did it take for you to root your slide? just wondering

Thanks

Drew
[myTouch 3G Slide General] megan23247:
It took me two days of reading, then I watched the video about 6 times, then I just did it and the actual process only took about 30 min. I have my electronic eng. Degree believe it or not but had NO clue how to use adb or anything else that had to do with Android so I guess u could say I am a newbie...maybe I just got lucky cause it worked my first try!

Sent from ROOTED MyTouch Slide
[myTouch 3G Slide General] kingofyo1:
glad to hear the videos worked out for ya! also glad you actually read the outline on how to do it :P apparently people dont know how to follow instructions, but you're one of the lucky few who can!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongoose77:
Hey everyone,

I recently goldcarded my phone, and now have 2.73.405.5 running on it, but it won't sync with my PC, and I can't import contacts from the memory card either, can anyone help me out?

Thanks,

Kev
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddotpatel:
Reinstall latest HTC sync from HTC site?,... update drivers?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
If you have goldcard downgraded to 2.73.405.5 I assume you're going to install a custom rom so there isn't any point in syncing the data now because its about to be wiped again. Wait until you get onto the custom rom then put the data back.

Also contacts aren't stored on the memory card AFAIK...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Contacts are on /data. Use Google contact sync if u want then backed up. :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongoose77:
For now I'm not going to install a custom ROM, as it sounds like 2.1 for Hero is round the corner, with the 1st part being released etc, I'll probably get frustrated and do it in the next few months, but right now I just want to be running standard HTC software, and the possibility of custom ROMs in a bit. I know they aren't installed on the memory card, but you should be able to import them from the memory card, no? That's what I've done in the past...

I've tried re-installing the drivers, but I'll try re-installing Sync.

Thanks

I've been messing with it, and after re-installing the T-Mobile software with the goldcard in, and doing the update to the 2.1 part 1 update it all works fine.

Thanks for your help/

Kevin
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
2.1 is already fully released officially.

You can backup the contacts using HTC sync, or if they are google contacts they are automatically synced.
[Desire General] dneill2006:
Using [ROM-FroYo] Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (16/07 v1.0c | OpenDesire Team)

But does anyone know how to enable the stock lock screen as finding the htc one rather boring?

thanks :)
[Desire General] endursa:
you can reboot into recovery and do

mount /system

mv /system/app/HtcLockScreen.apk /system/app/HtcLockScreen.bak

but be aware that you can't snooze or disable any of the Htc Clock set alarms anymore (neither alarm nor count down nor timer!)
[Desire General] CerB:
where do we do that ?
[Desire General] EroThraX:
Just flash the stock Android clock to get around that.
[Desire General] CerB:
where do i write those lines ? in recovery ?

nevermind :-D search my friend search
[Desire General] civicvx94:
Any idea if these commands would also work on a Nexus running a Desire port? I want to have the stock froyo ls instead of the sense one too..

thanks alot..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bl@ck:
Hi there :)

It's been a lot since root release but i still have to root my device, since i saw around a new tool (unrevoked3) that makes it simple and fast i wanted to give it a shot and see if the devs around there made some good roms.

What i've been looking around is a stable Froyo rom, better if w/o sense, and with working Radio FM but i can't seem to find it. Everyone talk about 720p camera, incall echo, LED mods, theme mods, etc. but i can't find a rom where it states "Radio FM: Working" and even looking around in the thread i can't find a clue if it works or no.

So, anyone knows one that i can try? :) Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamieyates79:
I'm using the LeeDroid ROM (v1.3) and the FM radio works fine. I also used Unrevoked3 to root my phone, and it's nice and easy.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
I think that the FM radio only works on Sense-based Froyo ROMs.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bl@ck:
Thanks for the tip, gonna try LeeDroid rom then :) i'm curious to see how froyo performs.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephumuris:
You can always install a home replacement so you have FM radio but a stock launcher and homescreen.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bl@ck:
That's what i'm doing atm on my 1.21 stock rom but the lack of space in memory is killing the fun of using this device, i've installed just a handful of apps and the memory is always around 15ish mb left, i'm spending more time deleting apps than using them :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dual-booter:
[HELP] Froyo rom + working Radio FMArrow

ephumuris,

Can you please elaborate a bit on what is meant here? I'm using a custom ROM w/o Sense, and find it perfect other than it's got no FM radio - something I'm missing from Sense.
[HD2 General] de Wolfe:
Hi.

Just found this Hotfix on our HTC page here in GER.

The file is called "_HTC HD2_LEO08878.exe" and has 471KB.

Setup.xml sais that it does the following:

HTC sais it does the following:

I have never experienced any issues with annual appointments.

Has anybody recognized some improvements brought by this (small) Hotfix?

Cheers. :)
[HD2 General] de Wolfe:
Has nobody tried it? For me installation doesn't work, because I'm not on stock.
[HTC Aria General] xdafly:
anyone tried juicedefender & ultimatejuice on aria?

Link 1

Link 2
[HTC Aria General] Cobus:
I started using it yesterday. Seems to work ok. A bit annoying when I open up the mail client after juice defender killed the network connection, since I get an initial network error.
[Desire General] sabbourh:
hello there

i am thinking of buying the htc desire , but after reading lots of reviews i didn't find any good answer of this question:

how's the sound quality of the earpiece during phone calls?

i work in a very noisy place , and currently i am using pro2 which is great when it comes to this point.

so , is the desire as good as the pro2 or better?? , please advice as i really need your opinions

thanks a lot
[Desire General] x01a4:
For me, the earpiece quality is more than sufficient.

But you might want to take a look at the Nexus One, wich has noise cancellation technology with a second mic.
[Desire General] sabbourh:
i can't get the nexus one as it's not avilable in my country , and i am stuck with only two options the htc desire , and the sony x10

i pesonally like the bigger screen of the x10 , but i saw so many posts in its forum saying that it has a very poor sound quality

and i also like the sence interface of the desire as i am using it on my pro2

so compared to the pro2 to the desire how's the sound quality?
[Desire General] sabbourh:
any help please

this point will be a deal breaker for me

thanks
[Desire General] cardiak:
Get either. They are both great. Although I prefer the desire's slim feel.

Then get a "Jawbone Prime" bluetooth headset. This has a sensor which detects movement in, you guessed it, your jawbone and only returns what its picking up.

I can make a call doing 70 on the motorway with all the windows down and the receiver can clearly only hear my voice on my headset.

Well worth the investment. Cost me £50

Regards,

CaRDiaK
[General Topics] quicksite:
OPINION PIECE / by quicksite

Tech Blogs: Slow Down, Get Your Acts Together, Focus on Reporting, You Can't Even Remember Your Own Stories from 7 Months Ago

Read Write Web is one of my favorite tech blogs. To me it has some of the finest writing and reporting around.

They are unlike my favorite battering targets: engadget, gizmodo and the like -- the advertising-driven slimeballs who have stakouts all over the world ready to beat someone else by half a day to breathlessly report on the latest new gadget "Seen in the wild"..

You can see them frantically poking the back alleys and drunk people in case they have a secret demo phone on them. SCORE 1 for the new iphone! Score 2 for going to JAIL!

Fine. They do a decent job overall, to me, generally, they are just like Hollywood tabloid journals, just instead of it being focused on Kristen Stewart the actress from TWILIGHT, it's the latest sexy phone from HTC. Same thing. Ohhh, let's undress it.... WE WERE FIRST!

Read Write Web is NOT in that category -- they do real tech industry reporting.

So, imagine my shock seeing this story today:

Google to Discontinue Nexus One

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_discontinue_nexus_one.php

The CONTENT itself is not shocking at all. The distribution method Google stuck with so stubbornly, despite being told repeatedly they needed to do things like offer phone support, have working demo models of the N1 at the Carrier Stores that sell plans linked to that phone (like T-Mobile USA) -- was seriosuly flawed, thus NO SHOCK. Makes perfect sense. The shock is: That someone would be shocked that the Nexus One did not sell through the roof.

That's what this Post is about.

I actually saw it through my twitter stream, with this shorter note from @rww

I decided to answer him, in my typical way-too-wordy way --- and by adding this preface here at XDA, it's even wordier. How bout that.

My answer is in the next post, which I posted to the twitter-companion "twitlonger.com" -- as though made in heaven for me.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kujrv1:
I have a gprs connection vodafone - spain to internet. I try automatic configuration and manual configuration.

When i try to connect it report error "answering modem has disconnected ". I didn't found solution...
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] gibbo82:
Just wondering if this app is a battery drainer!? I'm currently using pop-up SMS and love it! But i like the look of handcent also and want to give it a try.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KimG:
I am using handcent and I dont have a problem with it draining my battery :)

Give it a try, I like it.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] gibbo82:
Is it just me!? Or is there a delay in the pop up screen as you receive a text with this app!?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] x10klemi:
i like chomp sms more
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] urs74:
Yeah one more for chompSMS
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KimG:
Is there any clear difference between chompsms and handcent? if so, can you list the differences and some pros/cons? :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] arj154:
ye i'd like that too, Personally I cant find anything different between the two, they seem pretty comparable.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Mano1982:
I had both ChompSMS & Handcent SMS & I found Handcent SMS better. Actually both seem pretty compareable, but Handcent is better for me :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] urs74:
Yeah they seem the same to me I just like Chomp I guess the name I don't know but really both are good SMS replacements.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] juke05:
Yeah i've only used Handcent, haven't noticed any difference on the battery but its an amazing app.